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What Counts as Seeing
I need a greater facility with multispecies languages. I am engaging in a conversation across cultural divides with other multitudes, whose languages and modes of perception we have only just begun to explore.
David Waltner-Toews • On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly | Aeon Essays
Nothing can sense everything, and nothing needs to. That is why Umwelten exist at all. It is also why the act of contemplating the Umwelt of another creature is so deeply human and so utterly profound. Our senses filter in what we need. We must choose to learn about the rest.
Ed Yong • An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Determined to avoid what she later called the “human bias” of popular science writing, Carson sought to portray the world of waters solely from a creaturely perspective, urging readers to “shed [their] human perceptions.”
inkl • What It Would Take to See the World Completely Differently
After the Gallaudet tour, I could better imagine what that might be like. Sound is a multisensory pleasure because it’s a wave. That’s why it’s something you can feel—the diffusion of its energy from a high concentration to a lower one as it moves through space.